The HCT Seoul 2018 Survival Guide
This weekend is home to the HCT Seoul 2018 Tournament! Players are taking part in glorious battle at the Nexon Arena (and some PC Bangs!) over three days for their share of $25,000 USD and 191 HCT points.
All the details you need for the event can be found down below.
HCT Seoul Schedule
The schedule for this weekend's event can be found below. If your timezone isn't listed, get out that calculator!
West Coast PDT (UTC -7) |
East Coast EDT (UTC -4) |
Europe CEST (UTC +2) |
Korea KST (UTC +9) |
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June 8 | 20:00 (June 7) | 23:00 (June 7) | 05:00 | 12:00 |
June 9 | 20:00 (June 8) | 23:00 (June 8) | 05:00 | 12:00 |
June 10 | 20:00 (June 9) | 23:00 (June 9) | 05:00 | 12:00 |
HCT Seoul Format
- Best of Five Conquest.
- Each player bans one of the opponent's decks.
- 512 player open Swiss Bracket.
- Top 32 players from Swiss move on to Double Elimination.
- Top 8 from Double Elimination move on to Single Elimination.
HCT Seoul Brackets
We will not be covering the brackets here but you can check them out as they get updated from the event over on Battlefy.
HCT Seoul Stream
You can watch all the action on the main stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
I read the opening text. All I wanted to say is if we added a few names like this: amongst the 512 players, a few of them are Just saiyin, sintolol, surrender.... rest of the list can be checked on somewhere (where ever it is) if u think it would be helpful. Personally, I thought it was an Asian championship but then i am stupid at times or maybe most of the times.
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It would be really helpful if some of the players like frozen and seiko are mentioned as the participants. A few of the big names might gather the interest of the people. Just a thought
Have you read the opening text ? ;
That would be hell of a list ...
I can agree with that, angrychicken007 (not quoting you because the quote bug would throw this post out of the chain). Small "notable participants"- list could get people more interested but the small problem I already mentioned below would be that there are a lot of notables (if you ask me). Also, I'm not sure how easy it would be to add to this post as Flux makes them. And I mean the sort of player line with pictures we've had sometimes in the past, just dropping some names would be super easy but I'd rather have a separate section for it. I'll ask Flux about it.
THank you very much. You seem like a nice guy :) not saying others are bad lol
Any player worth following for a casu like me ?
hunterace, Frozen, SamuelTsao.
You want the decklist of all 385 participants? I think only the decklist of the finalists will be posted as usual.
All the decklists are available in Battlefy for those interested but we are definitely not going to add decks from every player here on the site. I think adding decklists from top 8 will be the way to go here.
If I'm brutally honest I did not. Lately adding decks has been my task only and since there are Tour Stops almost every week now it would indeed be a lot of work if I were to add even more decks every week. Top 8/Top 16 every week is doable though.
Also, these tournament are filled with people I feel could qualify as notable. If I'd only pick the players I'd imagine everyone will know this would quickly become "these Western players have traveled to Korea to play"- kinda post and that's one reason why I'd rather post decklists based on performance, everyone has equal chance to make it. Ultimately, though, it's Flux's call to make what these posts will include so I can ask his opinion too.
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Good Luck to all.
But more to Tom.